Every summer, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival highlights the musical culture of one particular country, and this summer Poland is the focus of the Festival and thus of the Orchestral Academy's programme. In addition to that the academy will play two Gala Concerts to celebrate Maestro Eschenbach, the principle conductor of the academy and the 25th anniversary of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. The Academy program is rounded off by a special series of seminars for all musicians taking part .

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Christoph Eschenbach (Principal Conductor) Gustav Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer (Matthias Goerne, baritone) Rückert Songs (Matthias Goerne and Thomas Hampson, baritone) Symphony No.1 in D major "Titan" Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor Frédéric Chopin Andante spianato et Grande polonaise brillante (Tzimon Barto, piano) Sergej Rachmaninoff Paganini Rhapsody (Tzimon Barto, piano) „Eschenbach & friends“ - Celebrating Christoph Eschenbach’s 70th birthday Hector Berlioz Le carnaval romain op.9 Ludwig van Beethoven Concert for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra in C major op.56 (Erik Schumann, violin; Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Anna Vinnitskaya, piano) Camille Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo capriccioso op.28 (Dan Zhu, violin) Peter I. Tchaikovsky Rokoko Variations op.33 (Dimitri Maslennikov, cello) Jennifer Higdon Concerto 3-4 (Time For Three) Henri Wieniawski Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.2 in D minor op.22 (Ye-Eun Choi, violin) Edward Elgar Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in E minor op.85 (Version for viola und orchestra) (David Aaron Carpenter, viola) Concert Gala - 25th anniversary of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival with Martin Grubinger, Midori and others

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Christopher Hogwood

Felix Mendelssohn- Bartholdy
Symphony No.5 »Reformation«
Robert Schumann
Mass in C minor (with Schleswig-Holstein Festival Choir)

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Isabelle van Keulen

Witold Lutos³awski
Funeral Music
Sergej Prokofieff
Classical Symphony
Alexandre Tansmann
Triptych
Astor Piazzolla
The Four Seasons

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Iván Fischer
(Conducting Masterclass)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.5 in C minor op.67
Béla Bartók
Concerto for Orchestra

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David Geringas

Works for chamber orchestra by Luigi Boccherini, Henryk M. Górecki and others











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The Tour
Every year beside the concerts in Schleswig-Holstein the Festival Orchestra plays several concerts in other cities in Germany and other countries. In 2010 the Festival Orchestra will go on tour to Warsaw, Prague and Budapest and will perform in Wiesbaden at the Rheingau Musik Festival with Christoph Eschenbach and in Berlin at the Festival young.euro.classic with Iván Fischer.

Chamber Music
Chamber music will play an important role at the Orchestral Academy alongside the orchestral work: The participants will rehearse chamber music works with the teachers, which they will then perform at the Salzau chamber concerts and also in the official programme of the festival.
The pieces will be sort out of the management of the academy but wishes and ideas of the young musicians are very welcome.

Therapeutic seminars
In addition to the orchestra rehearsals, the
chamber music and the tours the academy will offer some therapeutic
seminars for the musicians. Each student has the possibility to take
part in various lessons, for example "Alexander Technik",
Dispositionstraining and Mental training and some other ones. The
detailed programme will be announced at short notice.

Conducting Masterclass
Following the tradition of Leonard Bernstein’s masterclasses in Salzau Iván Fischer will work with a selected number of young conductors during his stay in Salzau. Further information about the Conducting Masterclass and the application procedure will be available at this website soon.